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Rigorous Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation with a Large Interaction Potential

arXiv:0802.3877 · doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-09-00635-3

Abstract

Consider a system of bosons in three dimensions interacting via a repulsive short range pair potential , where $\bx=(x_1, >..., x_N)$ denotes the positions of the particles. Let denote the Hamiltonian of the system and let be the solution to the Schrödinger equation. Suppose that the initial data satisfies the energy condition \[ < ψ_{N,0}, H_N ψ_{N,0} > \leq C N >. \] and that the one-particle density matrix converges to a projection as . Then, we prove that the -particle density matrices of factorize in the limit . Moreover, the one particle orbital wave function solves the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation, a cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation with the coupling constant proportional to the scattering length of the potential . In \cite{ESY}, we proved the same statement under the condition that the interaction potential is sufficiently small; in the present work we develop a new approach that requires no restriction on the size of the potential.

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